It’s the penultimate day in Tokyo. Join our team with a host of medals up for grabs ... ( read original story ...)
Nelly Korda wins women’s golf tournament in Tokyo as USA sweeps both golds
With Korda’s victory, the U.S. completes a sweep in the Olympic golf competition, following Xander Schauffele's triumph last week. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Tom Daley goes for diving gold, Team USA win men’s basketball, plus boxing and more – live!
It’s the penultimate day in Tokyo. Join our team with a host of medals up for grabs ... ( read original story ...)
Nelly Korda wins gold as Team USA dominates golf in Tokyo
After Team USA's Xander Schauffele won gold in the men's tournament last week, 23-year-old World No. 1 Nelly Korda earned the United States a second golf gold in the women's tournament. Closing out ... ( read original story ...)
As Pandemic Olympics wane, Japan asks: What did Games mean?
Was it the strangest Olympics ever, staged during a deadly global pandemic, with no fans? How about the angriest, awash in protests and fierce opposition from large swaths of the host nation? ( read original story ...)
Left out of Olympics, men’s rhythmic gymnasts loved in Japan
In the suburbs of Tokyo, Hiromi Matsumoto found herself falling in love with online videos of rhythmic gymnastics — a spectacular swirl of ballet and acrobatics, clubs soaring through the air, bodies ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mone Inami bests Lydia Ko for Olympic silver medal in playoff
For the second consecutive week a playoff was needed to round out the medal podium at the Olympic golf competition, and this time it was Japan's Mone Inami edging Lydia Ko for silver. ( read original story ...)
Marathon fans in Sapporo break the Olympic silence, but the heat is unrelenting
Just past 6 a.m. Saturday on the streets of this 1972 Winter Olympic city of two million, 514 miles north of Tokyo on the island of Hokkaido, there came a sound so achingly lacking at these hushed ... ( read original story ...)
The Olympic Marathon in Sapporo: A Test of Survival
The runners best able to handle the brutal conditions prevailed. Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won the race, with Brigid Kosgei taking silver and Molly Seidel winning bronze in her third-ever marathon. ( read original story ...)
Olympics-Judo-Riner shines even as Japan judokas win record gold
By Tetsushi KajimotoTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese judokas achieved a record gold medal rush for the host country at the Tokyo Games, but it was France's Teddy Riner who stole the show at the home of ... ( read original story ...)
Olympic Baseball Tokyo 2020: How to Watch USA vs. Japan Gold Medal Game Live
Team USA looks for a first Olympic gold in 21 years, while Japan could finish top of the podium in baseball at the Olympics for the first time. ( read original story ...)
Olympics-Baseball-Japan a win from gold feel onus to avoid sorrow, boost interest
Frowns are about all Japan shortstop Hayato Sakamoto can remember of his country's last gold-medal game in baseball.Then just five years old, Sakamoto, now 32, told Reuters: "I remember they weren't ... ( read original story ...)
Paris 2024 Presses On With Plan A, but Studies Tokyo’s Plan B
Paris says it’s prepared, but so was Tokyo. By Tariq Panja TOKYO — Tony Estanguet wants to talk about how the next Olympic Games, in Paris in 2024, will be a paradigm-shifting moment for an event that ... ( read original story ...)
10 passengers injured in stabbings on Tokyo train
Japanese fire department officials say a man with a knife has stabbed 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics cost $15.4 billion. What else could that buy?
The official price tag for the Tokyo Olympics in $15.4 billion, which a University of Oxford study says is the most expensive on record. What else could those billions buy? The ballpark figure for ... ( read original story ...)
Knife attacker on Tokyo commuter train wanted to kill ‘happy women’- NHK
The man alleged to have wounded 10 people in a knife attack on a Tokyo commuter train late on Friday told police he became incensed when he saw women who "looked happy" and wanted to kill them, ... ( read original story ...)